United Nations S/2012/599

Security Council Distr.: General 9 November 2012

Original: English

Identical letters dated 2 August 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

Upon instructions from my Government, and following my letters dated 16 to 20 and 23 to 25 April, 7, 11, 14 to 16, 18, 21, 24, 29 and 31 May, 1, 4, 6, 7, 11, 19, 20, 25, 27 and 28 June, 2, 3, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17 and 24 July, and 1 and 2 August 2012, I have the honour to attach herewith a detailed list of violations of cessation of violence that were committed by armed groups in from Saturday evening, 21 July 2012 until Sunday evening, 22 July 2012 (see annex). It would be highly appreciate if the present letter and its annex could be circulated as a document of the Security Council.

(Signed) Bashar Ja’afari Ambassador Permanent Representative

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Annex to the identical letters dated 2 August 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

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List of attacks and violations carried out by armed terrorist groups between 2000 hours on Saturday, 21 July 2012 and 2000 hours on Sunday, 22 July 2012

Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 1 2000 2400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Five officers were and Rif groups in Hirista came under wounded. Dimashq armed attack. 2 0230 0400 Armed terrorist Adra central prison came – group under armed attack. 3 0230 0300 Armed terrorist Officers guarding oil Eight officers were group pipes in Shaqraniyah abducted and ten came under armed attack. automatic rifles and a machine gun were stolen. 4 0400 1600 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers 13 officers, groups in Qabun came under including a armed attack. lieutenant and second lieutenant, were wounded. 5 0600 0700 Armed terrorist The Ministry of Defence – group Factories Agency in came under machine gun and sniper fire. 6 0730 0830 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was group in Hirista came under fire. wounded. 7 0800 1400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Staff Sergeant groups in Irbin and Dumayr came Husayn Sulayman, under armed attack. Sergeant Imad Iskandar and conscripts Shadi al-Salamah, Hani Abd al-Hamadah and Abduljalil Ibrahim were killed; four officers were wounded.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome

8 0800 1000 Armed terrorist A military barracks in Rif One officer was groups Dimashq came under wounded. armed attack. 9 0900 0930 Armed terrorist Family housing for law – groups enforcement forces came under armed attack from all directions. 10 1100 1200 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Lieutenant Yahya group at Salh al-Tayr in the Shanaq was killed, district of Arkan Lieutenant Ahd came under armed attack. Zaydan was abducted and five officers were wounded. 11 1400 1430 Armed terrorist A law enforcement Several officers group vehicle transporting were killed and rations was ambushed in wounded. Qalamun. 12 1500 1530 Armed terrorist Brigadier Ali The brigadier’s group was abducted and killed body was found at in Sahnaya. the Bayadir Nadir turn-off. 13 1545 1630 Armed terrorist A law enforcement patrol Sergeant group was ambushed in the Abdulkafi Rayhan district. Abdulkhaliq and conscripts Ibrahim Hamadah, Muhammad Bilal al-Turuq and Mahmud Mashhadi were killed; one officer was wounded. 14 1800 1930 Armed terrorist A law enforcement patrol Conscript group was ambushed near the Abdulrahman Jala’ garden in Duma. Sulayman was killed. 15 Dar‘a and 1000 1100 Armed terrorist Border guards in Tall – surrounding group al-Barkhi came under area armed attack.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome

16 1900 2300 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers – groups came under fire at Hamidah al-Tahir, the Ba‘th party offices, the railway station, the neighbourhood of the electricity company, the Nu‘aymah bridge, the Advisory Unit, the hotel school and the camp entrance. 17 2130 2200 Armed terrorist Officers at – group police station came under fire. 18 2200 2400 Armed terrorist An explosive device was 11 civilians were group detonated in a residential wounded. district in . 19 0400 0500 Armed terrorist A 200 kg explosive device The device was group was planted in front of the defused by Natur post in Tafas. military engineers. 20 0400 0600 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Four officers were group in Mismiyah came under wounded. fire. 21 0800 0815 Armed terrorist Chief Warrant Officer The chief warrant group Muhammad Wannus was officer was killed. shot while on his way to pick up supplies in Aqraba. 22 1000 1200 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers A lieutenant and one group in Ma‘rabah came under other officer were fire. wounded. Four law enforcement vehicles were damaged. 23 1530 1532 Armed terrorist An explosive device was Two officers were group detonated on the road wounded. between and Shaykh Miskin as a law enforcement vehicle transporting rations was passing.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 24 1700 1900 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Conscripts Khalid group in Dar‘a came under fire. Awas, Abdulqadir Abdulbasit, Husayn Nasir and Salih al-Ahmad were killed. 25 Qunaytirah 2000 2300 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Conscripts group in Jubbata al-Khashab Mustafa Khalil, came under fire. Hasan al- and Ahmad al-Ali were killed. 26 and 2000 0600 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was surrounding groups in Qarabis and Qusur wounded. area came under fire from gunfire and rocket- propelled grenades. 27 2000 0600 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers – groups in Karm Shamsham and Cairo Street came under fire from gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades. 28 2100 0430 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was groups came under fire in Bab wounded. Tadmur, Bab al-Siba‘, the Shammas district, Sultaniyah, Qusayr and the village of Hasawiyah. 29 2100 0400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers 15 officers, groups in Talbisah came under including a fire. lieutenant colonel, were wounded. 30 0430 0930 Armed terrorist Border guard officers in Private Ali Abbas groups Jusiyah came under fire. was killed and three other officers were killed. 31 0600 1600 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers – groups came under sporadic fire in Qusur, Qarabis, Cairo Street, Bab al-Siba‘, Wa‘r, Sultaniyah and the Hadidat al-Asi turn-off.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 32 0600 1400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Two officers were groups came under fire near Rastan. wounded. 33 0700 1100 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers 11 officers were groups in Talbisah came under killed and 44 attack from various types wounded. Four of weapon. armoured law enforcement vehicles were destroyed. 34 0900 1730 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was groups in the city of Qusayr came wounded. under sporadic sniper fire. 35 1200 1400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers The entire bridge groups came under fire from collapsed. gunfire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars near the factory bridge. 36 1500 1800 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Staff Sergeant groups in Rastan came under Husam Yusuf, attack from different types conscripts of weapons. Muhammad Tamir Adib al-Habi and Ali Faraj and Staff Sergeant Mahmud Sulayman were killed; four officers, including a lieutenant and second lieutenant, were wounded 37 Hama and 2000 2015 Armed terrorist A civilian was abducted The body of the surrounding group and tortured, and his civilian, which area throat was cut. bore marks of torture, was found on the - Sayadah road. 38 2100 2230 Armed terrorist A Department of Sergeant Sawmar group Production facility came Ibrahim was under armed attack. abducted. A ransom of one million Syrian pounds and two rifles was demanded from his family.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 39 2130 2200 Armed terrorist The law enforcement – group checkpoint near the A‘laf roundabout came under fire. 40 2230 2300 20 armed Shots were fired into the – terrorists air and civilians intimidated in the village of Jinan, between the asphalt plant and the Karm Abu al-Su‘ud district. 41 2330 2345 Three armed Conscript Ghassan – terrorists Shaninah was abducted in front of his house opposite the hospital in the Qusur district. 42 0300 0315 Armed terrorist Officers guarding a One officer was group military barracks on the wounded. Hama road came under fire. 43 0730 0900 Armed terrorist The village of Qal‘at The civilian Hasan group al-Hawayis in the Muhriz was killed subdistrict of Hamra’ and his brother, the came under armed attack civilian Ali and the inhabitants were Muhriz, was shot at. abducted. 44 0800 0815 Armed terrorist The civilian Mahmud – group al-Yusuf was abducted on the Salamiyah-Muhradah highway at the village of Asman. 45 0930 0945 Armed terrorist A civilian was killed and The civilian was group his body dumped near the killed. Ali ibn Abi Talib mosque in the Suq al-Shajarah district. 46 1000 1015 Armed terrorist The civilian Abdulhalim Both civilians group al-Muhammad and his were killed. brother, the civilian Muhammad al-Muhammad, were shot while on their way to sell vegetables in Suran.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 47 1000 1015 Armed terrorist The civilian Yunus The civilian was group al-Abbas was shot while wounded. driving on the Sumnah- north Tall Ada highway in the Salamiyah district. 48 1000 1002 Armed terrorist An explosive device was – group detonated in the town of Aqrab, in the subdistrict of Harbinafsah, near the Bitar poultry farm. 49 1100 1115 Three armed The office of the The administrator terrorists administrator of Suran was abducted. subdistrict was broken into. 50 1400 1415 Armed terrorist The national hospital in An ambulance group Suran was broken into. belonging to the Department of Health was stolen. 51 1500 1530 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was group came under fire in the wounded. Farayah district. 52 and 2000 2015 Armed terrorist A Sonata jeep was stolen – surrounding group on the Wahah-Tall Urun area road. 53 2300 2315 50 armed A police vehicle was – terrorists seized by force of arms from the assistant administrator of Afrin district. 54 2400 0015 Eight armed The civilian Muhyiddin – terrorists Zurayq was abducted from his home in the village of Kafr Halab. 55 0500 0700 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Conscripts Samir groups in the city of Bab came al-Hayik and under armed attack. Muhammad Salih were killed and six officers wounded. 56 1100 1300 Armed terrorist A policeman, Aziz The policeman group Khadijah, was shot in was killed. .

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 57 1100 1600 300 armed Law enforcement officers Four officers were terrorists came under fire near the killed and three bridge and an others wounded. attempt was made to surround them. 58 1200 1800 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was groups in large and the Hanano police killed and four numbers force came under attack others wounded. A from different types of police car was weapons. damaged and two rifles were stolen. 59 1415 1445 Armed terrorist A car carrying three Colonel Mahmud group officers was ambushed al-Tawil and while driving through the Lieutenant Colonel district of Muslimiyah. Isa al-Qadi were killed and Colonel Mahmud Salamah was abducted. 60 1630 1730 Armed terrorist The law enforcement post 16 rifles with group at the 17t April dam in ammunition were Afrin came under armed stolen. attack and was surrounded. 61 1800 2000 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Three officers group came under fire in the were wounded. Salah al-Din district and Sakhur. 62 and 1800 1900 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Conscript Samir surrounding group at radio station Kifo was killed area came under armed attack. and one other officer was injured. 63 2000 2100 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was group in came under wounded. fire. 64 2000 0400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement – group checkpoints in Ma‘arrat al-Nu‘man (at the Ma‘arrah municipality, the Ma‘arr Shurin turn- off, the Dallah roundabout and Maqali‘) came under fire.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 65 2100 2200 Armed terrorist Abu al-Duhur Airport – group came under armed attack. 66 1000 1030 Armed terrorist A law enforcement patrol Conscript Jakar group came under fire on the Muhammad and -Basila road at policeman Husam the village of Birat Ahmad were killed Armanaz. and one officer was wounded. 67 1000 1030 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers One officer was group in Armanaz came under wounded. fire. 68 1200 1230 Armed terrorist A law enforcement forces Sergeant Jabir group rations vehicle was Ibrahim was killed ambushed at Ayn al-Hamra’ and five officers on the Jisr al-Shughur- were abducted. Six Muhambal road. rifles were stolen. 69 Dayr 2000 2400 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers Lieutenant Ayman al-Zawr and groups in Dayr al-Zawr came al-Ali, conscript surrounding under fire. Ammar Hamad, area Sergeant Sawmar Shahin, conscript Yusuf al-Husayn, Sergeant Ghassan Hammud and conscript Nayif al-Irbini were killed; five officers were wounded. 70 2100 2200 Armed terrorist Law enforcement officers – groups at the district headquarters in and near the fisheries office came under armed attack. 71 Hasakah 2100 2300 Armed terrorist An agricultural project – groups managed by the Department of Production in Malikiyah came under armed attack and was seized.

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Time Composition of armed Act carried out by armed terrorist No. Place From To terrorist group group Outcome 72 0500 0700 Armed terrorist The law enforcement post Colonel Diyab groups at Simalka in the Ghanim and Malikiyah district came Colonel Ali Yusuf under armed attack. were abducted together with nine officers. 73 1000 1030 Armed terrorist The garage of the Cereal Five vehicles were group Trading Facility was stolen. broken into. 74 1000 1015 Armed terrorist A pick-up truck, licence – group plate No. 572341, belonging to the Tishrin oilfield in the Abu al-Hawl sector, was stolen. 75 1300 2000 Armed terrorist The Malikiyah recruiting Two officers were groups office came under armed wounded. attack and was broken into. Law enforcement forces in the district were attacked and civilians evicted from their homes. 76 1600 1730 Armed terrorist The Ya‘rubiyah recruiting – group office came under armed attack and was seized; the home of the head of the office was attacked. Violations perpetrated against guards along the Syrian borders 77 Lebanese 0015 0200 Armed terrorist Border guard officers in – border groups Tall Kalakh came under fire from gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades from the villages of Nurah and Dababiyah, within Lebanese territory.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Unidentified Firing of weapons and Attempted cross-border infiltration bodies Killed Wounded Abducted attacks against Explosive devices and smuggling of weapons discovered

Law Law Law Law enforcement enforcement enforcement enforcement Exploded in Civilians officers Civilians officers Civilians officers Civilians officers Exploded Defused manufacturing Lebanon Turkey Iraq Jordan

5 57 1 139 4 26 7 79 6 1 – – – – – –

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